Word: economists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geoffrey Crowther, managing director, the Economist...
...popular issue against him, shrewdly concluded that he had better change his party's ways before the 1961 presidential elections. "Nothing less than a total war against corruption will satisfy our people,'' announced the new Garcia-and fired four of his Cabinet ministers. Then he summoned Economist Dominador (Dom) Ay-tona, 42, a onetime schoolmaster who had graduated summa cum laude from Manila University and served as Magsaysay's budget commissioner. "What do you think about graft and corruption?" he asked. When Aytona bluntly replied that reform was necessary, Garcia named him Secretary of Finance...
Golda Meir, economist, Foreign Affairs Minister of Isreal LL.D...
Instead of selling British products, wrote the Economist, many an ad relies with "desperate emphasis" on the implication that "we know this product is not competitive in price or design, but it is British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make...
...Economist argues that U.S. admen should restyle their views of Britain so that the British can compete with the image of gaiety and color that surrounds French products and the "efficiency treatment'' given to German wares. Oddly enough, most of the Economist's criticisms seemed to be directed not against some U.S. admen with a happy ignorance of today's welfare-state Britain but against a transplanted. British-born adman who knows very well what he is up to. David Ogilvy. president of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, creator of the bearded snobbery of the Schweppes tonic...